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"We've been able to create a remote environment that enables
clinicians to have access to the applications they require but at
the same time enforce the highest level of security for confidential
patient records."
Jon Reed, Director of ICT, The Royal Marsden Hospital |
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"Overall, Butler Group believes that the Centralis approach
is ideal for any UK-based company faced with tasks such as distributing
a large and/or critical set of applications to diverse user groups
quickly; implementing an OS upgrade; outsourcing/off-shoring engagements;
replacing PCs with thin clients; or simply in an initiative to optimise
desktop management."
Butler Group Technical Audit, August 2008 |
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"There were some gaps in my understanding of how things would
finally work when I proposed a whole organisation adoption of Citrix
for all of our 150+ applications. The Centralis demonstration brought
to life the way that I had anticipated it working. It was also inspirational
to see the relevant technologies coming together so neatly."
Bill Remmer, Assistant IT Director, University Hospitals of Leicester
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"Everyone was very impressed by the progress Centralis has
made over the last year in developing a working infrastructure model
combining conditional access with virtual desktops and application
streaming. It was particularly useful to see the disparate products
coming together into a logical and clear operating model; something
that's been lacking from the vendors themselves for quite some time."
Ewen Bruce, Mobile Services Architect, Standard Life plc |
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"We engaged Centralis because of their understanding of our
needs and reputation for delivering on their promises. Their project
met all our expectations, and we were confident enough in the quality
of service provided to award Centralis the contract to manage the
Citrix environment as an outsourced service."
Nick Atkins, Head of IT&T, University Of The Arts London |
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"When an Organisation seeks to exploit leading edge technology,
you need to recognise that you need a partner who is an expert to
make success easier. In Centralis BUPA found experts who also matched
our delivery approach in every way and best of all kept to their
promises."
Ian Shaw, Head of IT Services, BUPA |
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"In Tesco, Citrix provides access to email, word
processing, spreadsheets as well as mainframe applications that
provide stock control and people management to staff working in
1200 stores. Tesco asked Centralis to review the way Citrix was
used and found a number of ways to improve the service. Centralis
have been able to provide product knowledge and practical advice
to understand the benefits of correctly configuring the management
services for Citrix deployments such as load balancing and licence
management, which has made the service more resilient."
Toni Lord, Desktop and Servers Lead Service Manager, Tesco |
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"The project was completed to our complete satisfaction....We
were extremely impressed with the professionalism that the Centralis
consultants showed throughout, the depth of knowledge they had of
Citrix and its surrounding technologies, and the level of expertise
they showed in executing the phases of the installation. Initial
testing has gone extremely well, with very positive feedback from
users"
Chris Bulley, Systems Support Officer, Mid Sussex District Council |
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"Pleasant and professional experts in the Citrix field. Whilst
clearly very experienced in all things Citrix there is no feeling
of arrogance or indeed being "all consultant". To the contrary ,
Centralis displayed a completely sensible and grounded approach
to dealing with the situation and were always listening and reacting
to the customer. A worthwhile experience which both achieved and
exceeded the original brief. I would certainly do business with
Centralis again"
Barry Stelling, IT Manager, Marriott Hotels (Whitbread plc) |
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"The impact Centralis made to moving things forward during
a very difficult time was amazing. It was clear from the terms of
reference that Centralis were experts in Citrix, they instantly
wanted to understand our business and the issues it faced. They
were able to exceed our expectations on extremely tight deadlines,
delivering quality documents and plans to get us back on track.
A fantastic experience, we would definitely do business with Centralis
again"
Alistair Norman, IT Services Manager, David Lloyd Leisure |
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"All the objectives of the project were met including a number
of changes and additions, and the whole process proved thoroughly
worthwhile. Always professional and helpful, the consultants paid
great attention to detail and went out of their way to accommodate
changing and evolving requirements. Speaking from a technical perspective,
it was obvious that the consultants had a thorough understanding
of our complex technical environment and considerable technical
expertise in the Citrix, Microsoft and Novell technologies involved.
Equally importantly, they understood what it was we were looking
to achieve and provided a number of helpful suggestions and improvements
to the service."
Dave Williamson, Infrastructure Development Manager, University
of Warwick |
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"Working with Centralis has allowed the AA to maintain the
build quality, integrity and resilience of the Patrols laptop PC
improving reliability and availability of the systems for the patrol.
This in turn has helped to maintain a low cost base for the general
support of the laptops."
Chris Bailey, Head of Business Systems, The AA |
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"To sum up my feedback in one sentence, it has to be Centralis'
willingness to go that extra mile on the RNLI's behalf, exceeding
what was required of them contractually on a number of occasions."
Richard Miles, IS Manager, RNLI |
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"We initially engaged Centralis to undertake a review of
our Citrix-based remote access solution. We were impressed by their
structured approach that demonstrated a clear knowledge and expertise,
together with an ability to deliver. As a result of this successful
engagement, we have continued to work closely with Centralis to
develop and improve our Citrix/Novell infrastructure that provides
our global workforce with access to key Standard Life applications."
Andrew Gordon, Standard Life |
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"Centralis demonstrated a professional approach to planning
and implementing the virtualised solution, overcoming any technical
challenge presented to them and delivering to a tight timescale."
Steve Conway, IT Manager, Permal Investment Management Services
Ltd. |
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"Centralis are very well known and respected for their high-level
infrastructure skills and methodology-driven approach, and are exactly
the right profile for a top-level VMWare partner."
Lewis Gee, Senior Director, VMWare |
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"Centralis have an established track record in enterprise-scale
application deployment, and their independent selection of AdminStudio
as the 'best of breed' toolset is a welcome endorsement. We are
very pleased to announce this new partnership as an endorsement
of their skills in delivering standard, reliable software installations
to their customers."
Adam Blackshaw, EMEA Channels Director, Macrovision |
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"The Citrix project was driven by a business model which
promised both support cost and infrastructure savings and the opportunity
to expand access for staff and students. We have now met all our
main project objectives and now have the added confidence that the
Citrix environment is maintained by Centralis as a managed service,
backed by the prompt response from their helpdesk."
Nick Atkins, Head of IT&T, University Of The Arts London |
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"Ensuring new server builds comply with existing standards
is always a challenge; especially when these standards move each
month with the release of new hotfixes and printer models. Harvester's
features give us the ability to ensure each server complies with
our reference build quickly and simply. This gives us added confidence
our build is correct and as a result has decreased our server time-to-deployment
by an enormous margin. Without Harvester we'd need substantial manual
effort to finalise each build. Harvester saves us valuable time."
Roy Farr, Principal Wintel Specialist, Centrica IS |
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"Our major concern when implementing Citrix...was the integration
with Novell...Centralis were able to provide us with the knowledge and
technical expertise to integrate Novell with Microsoft and Citrix - Two
clicks of a mouse and our Novell users are able to login to the Citrix
farm using their current credentials. Password synchronisation
is also taken care of – Fantastic!"
Paul Brown, Network Manager, Capital Radio |
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"RMC initially engaged Centralis to overcome a major problem.
They came highly recommended by Citrix Consulting Services and we
were very pleased with the results of their work. RMC were particularly
impressed with the skills of the Centralis consultants and with
their commitment to getting us over our issues within the very tight
deadlines. The success of the initial engagement gave us real confidence
in Centralis’ knowledge and experience and we have gone on to use
their services to develop our overall Citrix Access Strategy."
Martin Lawson, IS Development Manager, RMC |
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"I was aware of Centralis and their considerable expertise
in this field and invited them to propose a solution which met our
present and future needs using a scalable solution based on Citrix.
The solution provided is both scalable and secure, it will enable
us to deliver applications to clinical staff irrespective of distance,
in real time wherever they are"
Dave Rose, IM&T Technical Architect, University Hospitals of
Leicester |
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"Centralis have delivered a managed desktop for Centrica's
mobile workers which has reduced the return to base rate for laptop
PCs by two thirds.
This approach supports thousands of our engineers in the field by
providing them with a user interface designed specifically for their
job, and supports Centrica by reducing our support costs for this
vital group of users."
Peter Christie, Mobile Solutions Manger, Centrica plc |
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"Centralis is a Citrix Solution Advisor Platinum partner
– a program which is invitation only for resellers who build a business
on Application Delivery Infrastructure and those that consistently
execute well against objectives and goals. These partners are highly
limited in number and are very tightly connected to the Citrix sales,
technical and marketing teams. "
Kevin Bland, Director of Channel Sales, Citrix Systems |
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"I am impressed
with both the quality of the service provided and of the people
who deliver it."
Terry Ward, I.S. Operations Manager, NSK |
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"We see Centralis as one our key technology partners, working
together to provide a solution which will deliver real benefits
in patient care"
Durgesh Parmar, Technical Business Analyst, University Hospitals
of Leicester |
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"When engaging with Centralis, we expected competence in
specific areas because that's why they had been recommended to us
- and that's what the contract promised! What we didn't expect however
was the level to which the consultant assigned took it upon himself
to own issues and deliver resolutions in associated areas that would
have a major impact on deliverables. This emphasis on providing
a solution as opposed to a set of completed tasks has been a major
"plus" in our experiences to date"
Tony Rucinski, Deputy IT Director, Cardiff University |
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"We approached Centralis in order to regain stability of
our existing Citrix infrastructure that had become uncontrollable
and unstable. Centralis provided all the technical assistance and
guidance onsite and remotely. Complemented with a full outsourced
service, this now allows us to concentrate on the running of our
business with a stable IT system. Business confidence has been fully
regained as we now have a solid, robust and well maintained Citrix
farm, all provided for by Centralis"
Mark James, IT Technical Services Manager, Crest Nicholson plc |
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"Working with Centralis has been a rewarding experience.
Always objective and highly knowledgeable, our consultant has shown
himself to be as adept at participating in our implementation planning
group as he is at building and testing servers. We have received
excellent business advice and always know there will be a patient,
informed and pro-active response to all our requests"
Malcolm Johnston, Chair of Thin Client working group, University
Of The Arts London |
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"Centralis has brought the remote users into an environment
that we can now support. We can resolve any faults centrally and
manage and upgrade software centrally."
Peter Christie, Mobile Solutions Manger, Centrica plc |
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